Roadside Adventures

Roadside Adventures combed the north-country region in search of fascinating places to play, stay and dine! Host Derek Muirden is all over the map, so join Mountain Lake PBS as we head on down the road in search of another Roadside Adventure. New episodes begin March 20th at 8 PM!

Vision2Action

Vision2Action is a group of citizens in Clinton County working to improve the quality of life in this region. We've partnered with this group to produce a series of Mountain Lake Journal specials that address the issues.

Rustic Living

Join award-winning Producers Derek Muirden and Aubrey Bresett as they search for style, elegance and originality and introduce you to some of the most talented architects, unique artisans, fearless interior designers and fascinating homeowners that work and play in the Adirondack Style!

Art Express

Art Express celebrates creative people who have dedicated their lives to the arts. The program takes you behind the scenes, backstage, and into the artists’ studios to meet the most talented people living among us in New York, Quebec and Vermont. The program surveys the arts and explores what it means to be human.

Dissed-Respect: The Impact of Bullying

Dissed-Respect: The Impact of Bullying encourages dialogue about the need to reduce the high-risk behavior of bullying. The program combines role-playing scenes with candid interviews of students and authorities in the field. In addition it employs an alternative approach utilizing poetry, rap and music to appeal to today’s student.

Flowers in the Desert: Cirque du Soleil

Flowers in the Desert explores the permanent feature shows of Cirque du Soleil on the Las Vegas Strip. Behind the scenes interviews and backstage footage allow the viewers to explore the creative process behind the performances.

This program was produced by Mountain Lake PBS as a fundraising program for the PBS system.

FOCUSED: Creative Youth in the Empire State

Forgotten War: The Struggle for North America

This 60-minute documentary tells the little-known story of how the native people of North America controlled the outcome of the French-Indian War. This special taps an panel of experts to dig beneath the familiar history, and shed new light on the multicultural blend of natives, Europeans, and Africans that was the North America of the 1750’s.

Inside Adirondacks: Creating the Wild Center

Lake Defenders

Lake Defenders explores the ecological and economic issues of aquatic invasive species impact in Lake George, highlighting both the successes and mounting challenges faced by the shoreline communities that depend on a healthy lake system.

ON HOME GROUND: Life After Service

ON HOME GROUND takes an intimate look into the lives of three veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who have returned to their Adirondack homes, and asks the question, after all the sacrifice, when does home finally feel like home again?

The Resilient Ones: A Generation Takes on Climate Change

A feature-length documentary exploring how communities are adapting to climate change in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern NY, seen through the eyes of high school students. By Mountain Lake PBS and BrightBlue EcoMedia.

The companion website features supplemental resources and lesson plans to bring this material in to the class room.

Small Farm Rising

Filmed in New York's Champlain Valley and Adirondack Mountains, this 60-minute documentary explores the reinvention of small-scale agriculture in America. Experience one full growing season through the eyes of first-generation farmers as they enrich and enliven their rural communities.

The companion website features supplemental resources and lesson plans to bring this material in to the class room.

Songs to Keep: Treasures of an Adirondack Folk Collector

Unless a Death Occurs: Hazing Examined

This film is an incisive documentary on the pervasiveness of hazing on America's high school and college campuses. In particular, this film traces the tragic steps of Walter Dean Jennings, a Plattsburgh State University freshman, who ultimately paid his tormentors the highest price for admittance into a fraternity banned by college authorities.

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